In working with the semiconductor and custom ASIC industries the design challenges that keep coming up are time to market, complexity, and cost of recall/redesign. These issues have become more acute as the rise of mobile platforms (smart phones, tablets) has...

A slow drain device often has a huge impact on the performance of many other devices in a SAN environment. That happens, because they block resources in a fabric other devices use as well. The main example for such a resource are ISLs, particularly the Virtual...